One of my regrets is that back in the early 2000s a local still running second hand shop (in which I made plenty of nice discoveries from 1996 onwards - superhails!) had an original The Red In The Sky Is Ours for weeks or months for a bargain price just sitting there, but I was not interested in picking that up because I was in a very strictly black metal state of mind back then, as many of us have probably been at some point... and I have not yet rectified this! Maybe it's just too late now. Or maybe when the time is just right...

So I only have Slaughter Of The Soul, which is good. Although as a side effect of modern times, it kind of floods my mind with images of suburban metalcore emo bands jumping up and down slamming their instruments in energy drink spasms. I'm not going to let something like that ruin a perfectly good melodeath album though._________________§:-Ğl

I actually sold my copy of Slaughter. It's a good melodeath album but I have no real use for melodeath anymore. Bad enough that it temporarily ruined death metal, it had to go ahead and try to ruin thrash as well. My vote goes to "With Fear" though really any of their earlier stuff is quality._________________http://unspeakableaxerecords.com

Revisited all their material as a result of this thread, and found myself wondering why I hadn't listened more to Terminal Spirit Disease for years; a great middle ground between the early and late material.

That said, all their albums are fantastic; With Fear... is an incredibly strange, twisted and bleak record, and very hard to fully understand I think. The Red... is perhaps their most atmospheric recording and Slaughter... is a great album for crushing a few beers, or running/gym sessions. Magical band.

I enjoy Gardens of Grief best because I know that when it ends Grotesque will start up, and Grotesque rules._________________If you are a false don't marry! Girlfriend is ok but only destructing anus from behind!!! - Fat Dagon

And now we have fags complaining about other fags. A "fagoboros" if you will.